Three years ago, we published a series on building a highly-available Wordpress site from scratch. Now we're going to refresh the technology stack and bring it up to date for 2024. In part five, we're using the Gluster install we did in the previous part to setup Wordpress.
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Three years ago, we published a series on building a highly-available Wordpress site from scratch. Now we're going to refresh the technology stack and bring it up to date for 2024. In part four, we're installing GlusterFS and getting it working on all three nodes.
Read MoreThree years ago, we published a series on building a highly-available Wordpress site from scratch. Now we're going to refresh the technology stack and bring it up to date for 2024. In part three, we'll leverage Ansible to make our setup fast and easy.
Read MoreThree years ago, we published a series on building a highly-available Wordpress site from scratch. Now we're going to refresh the technology stack and bring it up to date for 2024. In part two, we'll step through provisioning these VMs at Hetzner.
Read MoreThree years ago, we published a series on building a highly-available Wordpress site from scratch. Now we're going to refresh the technology stack and bring it up to date for 2024. In part one, we're covering some background, design considerations, and architecture.
Read MoreOne of my favorite services is PikaPods, which allows you to effortlessly spin up nearly 80 apps (and growing) including development, database, monitoring, collaboration, note-taking, and more. Let's dive in!
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Model-View-Controller (MVC) is a very popular pattern for web application development. It's used by a who's-who of application frameworks, including Laravel, Ruby on Rails, CakePHP, CodeIgniter, Lami...
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Understanding how bandwidth on Vultr is complicated. Let's go over how it works, and then how to avoid overages.
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You don't use sudo, but you're constantly coming across commands that are prefixed with sudo. Tired of having to first edit them to remove the sudo? We have a one-time solution for you.
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Recently I read a long article about the difference between SYSDATE() and CURRENT_DATE() in Oracle databases. It reminded me that I once researched the difference between NOW() and SYSDATE() in MySQL. These functions seem very similar, and for many (most?) uses, you'd be hard-pressed to observe a difference. But they're not exactly the same. Here's a quick guide on which to use when.
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Did you know that Gmail and Yahoo are enforcing new sending rules effective February 2024? It’s important for you to adapt and review quickly, to ensure your emails will be able to continue to reach your customers, considering that these email services are commonly used email services by customers to this day.
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I've been hacking on my Raspberry Pi this week, and today I'd like to share my experiences with a variety of Linux slideshow programs. We'll also take a look at monitoring the Pi's temperature.
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The answer is not tvservice, cec-client, or vcgencmd. Let's explore the fast-changing world of Raspberry Pi display commands.
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If you've been following my journey with Directadmin, I signed up for a DirectAdmin reseller account with Silicom Network. They perform backups, but I'd like my own backups. How can I automate them, including MySQL, when I don't have a shell account?
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Last time we got signed up with a Silicom Network reseller account. Now let's get SSL configured and setup Wordpress.
Read MoreI signed up for one of Silicom Network's lifetime reseller accounts. Let's go through setup and start getting familiar with DirectAdmin.
Read MoreWant to run FreeDOS on your Apple Silicon Mac? Took me a bit of research to figure out how to get it going via QEMU. Here's my recipe...so I can find it in a few years when I've forgotten how to do it.
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rtorrent's web UI is pleasant to use, but often fails to correctly remove torrents. Over time, this can lead to a build-up of torrents that need to be cleaned out manually. Here's a quick script to help you fix the problem and reclaim wasted space.
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Does it really matter if your Proxmox server catches on fire if you have a disaster recovery plan and automatically back it up anyways? Your data is precious. Back it up. Here's how...
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We created a popular video on LowEndBoxTV comparing popular note-taking solutions such as Obsidian, OneNote, etc. You night choose one or the other based on different features. But there's one feature you might consider that we didn't cover: can you run it in a terminal?
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Speccing out a box to use for Plex? Consider how much CPU you need for transcoding...unless you're talking about 4K.
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Recently I had some folks watching my shared screen and they were constantly saying "oh, that was cool, I didn't know you could do that in the shell". Here's some shell tricks I showed them.
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Self-hosting email doesn't have to end in you purchasing yet another email hosting subscription. There's a better way -- let us show you. Matter of fact, let us show you how to self-host your email for less than $3/mo, in three simple steps.
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Your Debian system is probably already doing security upgrades automatically. It's trivial to extend that to the entire system so your system is always up to date. We'll show you how.
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ChatGPT is everywhere and is a powerful tool for generating or enhancing your online content. Why not use it to spruce up your LowEndTalk offer post? In other news, I really want to buy a FoxyBoxes VPS.
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What is that "Looking Glass" thing we see in provider offers? We explain and show some examples of use featuring Smarthost's new servicer location in Toronto, Ontario.
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I have a confession: sometimes I write LowEndBox tutorials so I can find them when I google the question in the future. Case in point: whitelisting an IP in Cloudflare's WAF. Now I'll always be able to find my notes for this procedure.
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For a lot of network devices, their entire configuration amounts to only a few megabytes' worth of data. But what a pain if you lose those megabytes! Fortunately, protecting your pfSense firewall is easy, secure, off-site, and FREE!
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